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The purpose of a Care and Craft Centre is to provide a range of interests and companionship for adult disabled or lonely housebound people.
Founded in Auckland in 1974 by Rewa Henderson, QSM, Care and Craft now has many centres operating throughout New Zealand.

THE CARE AND CRAFT CENTRES INC.

A Care and Craft Centre caters for lonely housebound people and disabled adults, known as guests, who are encouraged to participate in a wide variety of handcrafts and social activities.
Care and Craft is not affiliated to any religious denomination.
There are no paid staff, and costs are kept to a minimum. Established centres help finance new centres. These, in turn, become self-supporting, through weekly trading tables and support from their local communities.

Volunteers, called helpers, organise and staff the centres which function in local halls one day a week, from approximately 1 Dam to 2pm, except during school holidays.
Morning tea and lunch are provided at a nominal charge.

Guests are offered tuition and help in such handcrafts as weaving, bathmats & knitted novelties, crochet, card making, painting, knotted rugs, toy making, Rumicub, Indoor bowls and painted embroidery, in a friendly caring atmosphere.
Transport to the centres can be arranged for guests who require it. Offers of assistance from drivers are always gratefully accepted.
Helpers require no special qualifications, only a caring spirit and a willingness to assist with craft work, kitchen or general duties, or to drive the guests to and from the centre.

Guests who attend the centres have a wide range of needs, and all - the handicapped, the emotionally distressed and the elderly living alone, with little company - can benefit from association with the centres.

If you know of a prospective guest, or if you feel you can help, contact the centre nearest you.

Paraparaumu - (04) 297 2937

Waikanae - (04) 293 2440

Updated: 28 May 2011

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Updated: 12 May 2009

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Paraparaumu care and craft
We provide social contact for the lonely and disabled.
We meet at the Paraparaumu community centre on Tuesday mornings from February to the first week in December. We start with morning tea at 10am.
Some members bring their knitting but we do not do other crafts as most of our members have poor eyesight and physical disabilities such as arthritis.
After morning tea we have a grocery raffle 10 cents a ticket followed by table games, indoor bowls and housie once a month.
We serve a cooked lunch at a cost of $5 at 12pm and guests return home at approximately 12.30pm. Transport is provided.